Judge Signs Off On End To Anti-Corruption Oversight For Teamsters
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement between the Teamsters union and the U.S. Department of Justice, which ends the government's 25-year anti-corruption oversight of the 1.4-million member union.
The union said the agreement announced in January was approved Tuesday by U.S. District Chief Judge Loretta Preska.
It ends a 1989 consent decree in which the labor union agreed to federal oversight and replaces it with an order that phases out the government's involvement in the union over a five-year transition period.
James Hoffa, president of the union since 1999, said the union can ``proudly declare that corrupt elements have been driven from the Teamsters and that government oversight can come to an end.''
Hoffa is the son of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who has been missing since 1975.
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